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Geislingen/Steige - This autumn, WMF Group will enter into a long-term partnership with the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF. The aim of the cooperation is to help children suffering from malnutrition and provide them with healthy nutrition. According to estimates by UNICEF, 165 million children around the world are affected by severe malnutrition. Together with UNICEF, the WMF Group wishes to ensure that the right of all children around the world to develop healthily is a reality.

Geislingen/Steige – The WMF Group will launch a whole new brand identity for its newly established consumer goods division at this year's Ambiente consumer goods trade fair in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, where for the first time WMF, Silit and Kaiser brands will be presented under the common WMF Group brand. "The new brand identity guides our customers and consumers much better through WMF Group’s brand environment," says Peter Feld, Chairman of the Executive Board at WMF. "This clear focus on our customers helps us continue to develop a global brand group, and we thus consistently implement one of our major core strategic goals."

Most people cannot do without one thing in the morning: a hearty breakfast with a hot cup of aromatic coffee. If you like to conjure up freshly brewed coffee for the breakfast table, you will love the French coffee press from the “WMF Coffee Time” collection. It makes brewing coffee an astoundingly simple task. Tasteful, modern and elegant, the French coffee press turns the morning cup of coffee into a truly pleasurable experience.

Cooking food quickly in a pressure cooker not only saves you time – it's a healthy way to cook too. With the "WMF Perfect Pro" you can cook food rapidly and in a way that preserves the vitamins, as steaming is the gentlest cooking method. Because ingredients retain their natural flavour and less salt is needed for seasoning, for example, the pressure cooker is also suitable for preparing baby foods and foods for special diets. Whether you want to cook vegetables, meat dishes or delicious stews, the "WMF Perfect Pro" is a real partner in the kitchen and can help you make savings too. Thanks to the reduced cooking times (up to 70%), you not only save time – leaving you with more time to enjoy your culinary creations – but also consume less energy.

The WMF Group generates sales of EUR 1024.3 million (+3%; 2013: EUR 1015m, or EUR 997.1m when adjusted for the sale of the Princess brand).

• Operating profit (EBIT) rises significantly (+18%) to EUR 55.9 million (2013: EUR 47.4m).
• Turnover from consumer business in China also grows significantly, by around 40 percent.
• Investment and modernisation planned for Geislingen HQ.